It looks like SpaceX’s first crewed Mars mission will be an epic shout-out to one of the most beloved sci-fi novels of all time. SpaceX plans to name the first of its many Mars-colonizing ships after “Heart of Gold,” a spaceship in Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” company founder and CEO Elon […]
Artist’s illustration of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane in Earth orbit. A private space plane is set to fly the United Nations’ first-ever space mission five years from now. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) are teaming up to launch a two-week robotic mission to low-Earth […]
The spaceship that SpaceX is building to colonize Mars could also take people out to Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon Europa and beyond, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), Musk unveiled SpaceX’s planned Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), a rocket-spaceship combo that the billionaire entrepreneur hopes will allow humanity to establish a permanent, […]
Technology image of the week: A simulated black hole appears at the location of Sunday’s ESA Open Day in the Netherlands To source
Fancy a move to Mars? SpaceX chief Elon Musk envisions a colony of 1 million Earth emigrants calling the Red Planet home within 50 to 100 years, but early settlers be warned: the risk of death is high. The trip, however, will be affordable, about $200,000 to start, with the goal of eventually cutting transportation […]
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside at night to do a little stargazing, the moon is being all weird again. If you’ve been paying attention to the tabloid press, you’ll likely know that Friday will play host to a “Black Moon.” But you probably heard about it for all the wrong […]
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer | September 28, 2016 04:49pm ET Credit: Photo by Hanneke Weitering Celebrating “Star Trek” To celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek,” the Paley Center for Media in New York City hosted 50 pieces of art by 50 artists in a gallery. Other activities, like free screenings and photo-ops, accompanied […]
Original Star Trek artwork at the “Star Trek: 50 Artists, 50 Years” exhibit at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. NEW YORK — To celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek: The Original Series,” CBS has curated a traveling art gallery featuring 50 “Star Trek”-inspired pieces by 50 artists from 10 countries. […]
“Science Friday” and “Studio 360” presented “The Golden Record Remastered” Sept. 27, 2016 at The Greene Space at WNYC, calling on a “stellar panel of culture experts” to describe what would be on a modern version of the famous Golden Record sent into space in 1977. NEW YORK — In 1977, NASA sent two Voyager spacecraft […]
A small drone taught itself to judge distances using only one eye during trials aboard the International Space Station, ESA-backed researchers have reported. To source
ISS/Kibo Monthly News: August, 2016 Last Updated: September 28, 2016 Topic of the Month Onboard activities of Astronaut Takuya Onishi Onishi maneuvering SSRMS to release Dragon spacecraft(August 26. Credit: JAXA/NASA/Takuya Onishi) Astronaut Takuya Onishi was busy in August conducting science/medical experiments and tasks related to the Dragon spacecraft (SpaceX CRS-9), and supporting an Extravehicular Activity […]
The Rosetta orbiter will plunge down into Comet 67P Friday (Sept. 30), snapping pictures and analyzing gas and dust on the way down. The first spacecraft to orbit a comet will end its historic mission on Friday (Sept. 30) with a crash landing. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta probe has circled Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for […]
Orbiting above eastern North America, a crew member on the International Space Station photographed a dense pattern of eddies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Caught briefly in the Sun’s “glint point,” reflections off the water surface show an interlinked mass of swirls and eddies in the shallow water north of Prince Edward Island. To […]